Fukuyama
The verdict
“Fukuyama” is uncommon French (frequency #92,761 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,761
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville du Japon, située sur l'île de Honshū, dans la préfecture de Hiroshima.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fukuyama · Fukuyama · French
Fukuyama · rank #92,761 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,761
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frémissant
Nearest frequency peer: frémissant (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Fukuyama »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fris
fris
7,244 corpus weight
- frisent
frisent
7,243 corpus weight
- frémissant
frémissant
7,241 corpus weight
- Fukuyama
Fukuyama
7,240 corpus weight
- fédératrice
fédératrice
7,238 corpus weight
- fêtarde
fêtarde
7,237 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Fukuyama » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fukuyama |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Fukuyama » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Fukuyama is uncommon French at frequency #92,761 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville du Japon, située sur l'île de Honshū, dans la préfecture de Hiroshima.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Fukuyama, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Fukuyama, spelled F-U-K-U-Y-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1Ville du Japon, située sur l'île de Honshū, dans la préfecture de Hiroshima.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Fukuyama appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au Japon, Fukuyama, ville d’un demi-million d’habitants, a été mise en alerte à cause d’un chat.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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